AWS Architect & Platform Engineering Lead Job Parsippany-Troy Hills area,New Jersey USA,IT/Tech

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Cloud Architecture & Technical Strategy

Architect scalable, secure, and cost-efficient AWS solutions across compute, storage, networking, and security.
Define reference architectures, platform patterns, and architecture modernization roadmaps (microservices, serverless, containers).
Lead multi account strategy, landing zone design, IAM governance, and network architecture.
Partner with Product, Platform, and Development leaders to align cloud strategy with business priorities.
Build and maintain platform components including CI/CD pipelines, shared services, observability stack, and deployment frameworks.
Implement infrastructure using Terraform, Cloud Formation, or CDK with strong Git Ops discipline.
Drive automation across provisioning, scaling, patching, and operational workflows.
Ensure platform consistency, reliability, and performance across all environments.

Platform Ownership: SLAs, Reliability, DR, Security

Own platform SLAs, uptime targets, and performance baselines; ensure adherence through proactive engineering.
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post mortem processes; drive continuous reliability improvements.
Own Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy, including RTO/RPO definitions, failover design, and DR testing cadence.
Maintain platform security posture: IAM, secrets management, encryption, network segmentation, compliance controls.
Implement Fin Ops practices and continuously optimize cloud spend.

AWS Administration & Operations

Manage day to day AWS administration including IAM, VPC, routing, backups, patching, and resource governance.
Maintain monitoring, logging, and observability systems (Cloud Watch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
Ensure operational readiness for new services, features, and platform capabilities.
Oversee environment lifecycle management across dev, staging, and production.

Leadership of AWS Engineering Team

Lead, mentor, and develop senior AWS engineers; provide technical direction, required coaching, and guidance.
Manage sprint planning, workload distribution, and delivery commitments.
Set engineering standards for IaC, CI/CD, security, automation, and documentation.
Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Required Skills & Experience

8–12 years of experience in cloud engineering, architecture, or platform engineering.
Deep expertise in AWS core services, VPC design, IAM, security, and multi account strategy.
Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation, or CDK.
Experience with ECS/EKS, Lambda, Event Bridge, and event driven architectures.
Strong understanding of CI/CD, Git Ops, Dev Ops pipelines, and automation.
Proven experience leading or mentoring engineers.
Experience owning SLAs, DR, incident response, and operational reliability.

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification.
Experience with platform engineering, internal developer platforms, or golden paths.
Experience with Fin Ops, cost governance, and cloud budget management.
Experience with security frameworks (SOC2, ISO
27001, NIST).

Success Criteria (First 90 Days)

Own AWS cloud, and platform infrastructure operations.
Establish platform SLAs, reliability baselines, and operational guardrails.
Align on enterprise platform modernization roadmap, set the foundation, and deliver initial scope of architecture improvements.
Implement DR strategy with clear RTO/RPO and testing plan.
Stabilize and optimize AWS environments and reduce operational noise.
Build a predictable delivery rhythm with AWS engineering team.
Produce and execute a clear cloud & platform strategy aligned with Product, Platform, and Development.

Work Location:

In person - Parsippany, NJ

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